Julian Fałat (1853 Tuligłowy - 1929 Bystra), St. Andrew's Church in Osiek, 1906.

watercolor, paper, 52.5 × 46.5 cm (light passe-partout)
signed, dated and inscribed l. d.: "Jul Fałat/ Osiek/906"

On the reverse a sticker from an exhibition at the TZSP in Warsaw in 1906.

Provenance:
- artist's atelier
- Collection of Leon Goldstand (purchased at the 1906 TZSP exhibition in Warsaw).
- auction at DA Agraart, 20.03.1994
- private collection, Poland

Exhibited at:
- TZSP Annual Exhibition in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, 1906 (as the property of the artist).

Mentioned in:
- "Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1906," Warsaw 1907, nlb.

Two localities were inseparably inscribed in Julian Fałat's life and work: the villages of Osiek and Bystra, located in the Silesian province. Although it was Bystra that eventually became the artist's life haven, Osiek permanently settled in the painter's heart. He returned there many times looking for inspiration, and his warm friends Oskar Rudzinski and his wife Gabriela née Wrotnowska Rudzinska had their property there. By the way, Oskar Rudzinski helped Fałat acquire a house in Bystra, and Gabriela Wrotnowska, related to the Rudzinski family, introduced the artist to Maria Luiza Comello de Stuckenfeld, whom he married in 1900. The stays in Osiek were extremely prolific periods in the artist's work. Primarily as a landscape painter, Fałat passionately immortalized Osiek landscapes. He also painted images of the Rudziński family and the local wooden church and chapel. The wooden St. Andrew's Church was very often featured in Fałat's Osiek watercolors. In the work presented at the auction we see the block of the 16th century building, framed in a tight frame, framed from the side of the chancel.